Comparison

Calorique vs Touch.Grass

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Calorique

This app offers a personalized approach to calorie tracking, considering cultural food preferences and household eating habits. It provides smart meal recommendations and pantry-driven planning to make healthy eating intuitive and less restrictive.

Highlights
  • Culture-aware nutrition guidance
  • Multiple logging methods (photo, voice, scan, search)
  • Smart meal balancing with dish recommendations
  • Pantry-driven meal planning
  • Collaborative household meal tracking
  • AI nutrition coach (Zoey)
  • Weekly calorie budgeting
Features
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Meal Calorie tracking that understands how people actually eat. Food is shaped by culture, traditions, households, and the ingredients already in your kitchen. Yet most nutrition apps treat food only as a list of calories and barcodes. Calorique is different. Had Butter Chicken and Naan for lunch? Instead of saying "you have 600 calories left," Calorique suggests specific lighter dishes from your cuisine — like Rasam Rice or Grilled Paneer Salad — that balance your day. Not "eat less." Eat smarter. That's Meal Intelligence - nutrition that thinks about what you should eat next, not just what you already ate. CULTURE-AWARE NUTRITION Food is deeply connected to culture. Calorique tailors guidance around your preferred cuisines and eating patterns. Whether your meals come from Indian, Italian, Korean, Thai, Mexican, Mediterranean, or any of 50+ cuisine traditions, the app adapts to how you actually cook and eat. No rigid diet frameworks. Better habits within your own culinary culture. LOG YOUR WAY Tracking should fit your life, not the other way around. • Snap a photo and let Calorique identify the dishes • Describe your meal by voice — "I had 2 rotis with Butter Chicken" • Scan a barcode for packaged foods • Search across 50+ cuisines and thousands of real dishes Four ways to log — the calorie tracker that never feels like a chore. SMART MEAL BALANCING After every meal, Calorique analyzes what you ate and recommends specific dishes from your cuisines that balance your day. Heavy biryani for lunch? Try a light Rasam Rice for dinner. Creamy pasta at noon? A grilled vegetable bowl tonight. Specific dishes, not generic advice. PANTRY-DRIVEN MEAL PLANNING Your pantry should guide what you cook. Calorique identifies ingredients you already have and recommends meals aligned with your nutrition goals. Turn your pantry into practical meal plans that make sense for your kitchen. KITCHEN: NUTRITION FOR REAL HOUSEHOLDS Meals are rarely cooked separately for each person. With Kitchen, one person logs the meal and each family member confirms their portion — making nutrition tracking simple and collaborative. Because real meals are shared. MEET ZOEY — YOUR NUTRITION COACH Zoey guides your daily food decisions based on your goals, lifestyle, and eating patterns. She provides personalized suggestions and meal guidance — and she speaks your cuisine. WEEKLY BALANCE, NOT DAILY GUILT A heavy dinner doesn't have to ruin your week. Calorique gives you a weekly calorie budget — eat lighter one day, enjoy a feast the next. Track consistently and unlock Comfort Meals — that biryani night or pizza Friday, already accounted for in your weekly plan. Discipline rewarded, not restriction enforced. KNOWS WHEN YOU'RE DINING OUT Walk into a restaurant and Calorique notices — gently prompting you to log your meal before you forget. It even identifies the cuisine to help you find the right dishes faster. Healthy eating shouldn't feel like a spreadsheet. Calorique helps you build better habits around real meals, real kitchens, and real traditions. And yes, we can do offline food search. Free to download. No credit card required. PREMIUM (free 21-day trial. Just update your profile for full access): • Zoey - nutrition coach • Meal plan generation • Unlimited photo logging • Voice/describe logging • Pantry management • Kitchen — family sharing All other features are free forever. Your cuisine. Your culture. Your nutrition. Terms of Use: https://www.caloriqueapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.caloriqueapp.com/privacy

About

Touch.Grass

This app helps you reduce phone usage by gamifying screen time. A virtual plant thrives when you stay within your daily limits and wilts if you exceed them, offering a visual representation of your digital habits.

Highlights
  • Virtual plant growth tied to screen time
  • Daily screen time tracking
  • Lifetime cost calculation of phone usage
  • 3x3 garden with planting and harvesting
  • App protection tiers
  • Focus mode for deep work
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At 4 hours a day, your phone will quietly cost you 8.3 years over the next 50. TouchGrass is here to help you keep some of them. Meet Sproutly, your green plant buddy whose mood is tied directly to your daily phone usage. Stay under your goal and Sproutly blooms. Blow past it and the garden wilts. No shame, no streaks held over your head. Just an honest cause and effect loop you can feel. WHY TOUCHGRASS IS DIFFERENT Most screen time apps show you a number. "5h 23m." That number is meaningless. You can't feel it. TouchGrass turns your screen time into something you actually care about: a tiny plant that lights up on a good day and droops on a bad one. WHAT YOU GET • A live read of your daily screen time, powered by Apple's Screen Time framework. • A health score that reacts to time lost on social, games, and entertainment, while productive use stays neutral. • A Reality Check that turns today's pace into the lifetime cost: years of your life on the phone. • A 3x3 garden you tend each day. Water, plant, and harvest seeds, unlocking rare species over time. • Three Protect tiers (Lite, Standard, Lockdown) that let you choose which apps Sproutly guards and shield them when you cross your daily limit. • Six themes: Forest Dark, Morning Meadow, Golden Dunes, Deep Tide, Twilight Garden, Sakura. • A Focus mode for deep work. Set a timer, watch Sproutly meditate, finish stronger. PRIVACY YOU CAN ACTUALLY VERIFY TouchGrass has no server, no analytics, and no account. Every number lives on your device. Your Screen Time data never leaves your iPhone. Delete the app and it's gone. There's no copy in the cloud, because the cloud isn't part of the design. REQUIREMENTS • Requires iOS 16 or later. iPhone only. • Uses Apple's Family Controls and Screen Time framework. You'll grant Screen Time access during setup. The app still works without it in calibration mode, but the garden's main loop assumes it's on. NOT FOR PARENTAL CONTROL TouchGrass is built for adults managing their own screen time. It is not a parental control product, doesn't use Family Sharing, and exposes your data to no one but you. Stop scrolling. Watch your garden grow.

Screenshots

Calorique4 screens
Touch.Grass4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Touch.Grass at none against Calorique's 1. Calorique's advantage is update cadence (daily vs fortnightly). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Calorique sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Touch.Grass asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Calorique against 5.0 for Touch.Grass. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calorique ships an update daily, Touch.Grass fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Calorique versus Touch.Grass: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCaloriqueTouch.Grass
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyDaily — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEQUITI VENTURES LLCSafee Karzai

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Calorique

Subscriptions1
  • Calorique Premium$4.991 Month
None

Touch.Grass

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Calorique free?
Calorique is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Touch.Grass free?
Touch.Grass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Calorique or Touch.Grass?
Calorique and Touch.Grass are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Calorique or Touch.Grass have ads?
Neither Calorique nor Touch.Grass shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Calorique or Touch.Grass?
Calorique ships an update daily, and Touch.Grass fortnightly. Most recently, Calorique was updated on October 15, 2026 and Touch.Grass on September 15, 2026.

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